On 8/23/06, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>From yum's point of view, they are all defined as separate repositories. If you mean something different, it's confusing to use the same terminology -- do you mean something like "package provider" or "vendor"?
Here is the crux of the problem... we are working with evolving terminology which is being used to describe evolving technology and structures. Having 14 different repository definitions sitting in several .repo files in the repo.d directory is not the problem. The problem is making it drop-dead easy for everyone who cares to know WHY we have all those definitions, instead of having one pile-on repository. We need to make it so easy to understand why that even my most hated and loathsome enemies, the technology reporter and editors-in-chiefs of online 'news' sites about 'OS''s, can discovery this information without being troubled with learning how to use established online resources to ask questions of other human beings... but I digress. It needs to be clear to new users on the clientside why -testing and -debuginfo and -devel are seperate and distinct entiries and why they are provided but disabled. Once you know what these repos do, and you are a rationale person ( an assumption easily broken), informed choices will be made regarding whether or not to enable them. And if Fedora is to be about anything.. it should strive to be about informed choice. -jef -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
